Online travel marketplace Wego joins forces with flyadeal to enable direct flight bookings

Wego, the online travel marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has announced its partnership with flyadeal, the low-cost airline in Saudi Arabia and a subsidiary of Saudi Airlines Group. This will offer users the chance to directly book flights on flyadeal through Wego’s platform.

The airline currently operates scheduled flights to 17 domestic destinations across Saudi Arabia and six in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

From June, the airline will triple its international footprint with 12 additional destinations in Europe and Middle East. These are Rhodes and Heraklion in Greece; Sarajevo (Bosnia); Larnaca (Cyprus), Tivat (Montenegro); Izmir, Antalya, Bodrum and Trabzon in Turkey; Baku (Azerbaijan); Tbilisi, (Georgia) and Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt).

The new partnership includes all flyadeal flights to Wego’s marketplace where users can book directly with the airline.

Con Korfiatis, flyadeal chief executive officer, said: “We are delighted to partner with Wego, the biggest and renowned online travel marketplace in the MENA region.

This collaboration will allow our customers to directly book flyadeal’s wide choice and growing number of flights through Wego’s platform, giving us the opportunity to distribute our products to a bigger audience, and showcase our competitive everyday fares. This partnership will further enhance our customers’ travel experience and help us to better serve them.”

Additionally, Wego’s users will benefit from the airline’s fares which will be promoted across all its marketing channels and will be able to search and book the most competitive deals online.

Ross Veitch, CEO and co-founder of Wego, said: “We look forward to offering flyadeal’s attractively priced fares to Wego’s audience both in the kingdom and also across our regional points of sale as flyadeal opens new international routes.”

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